DURANES ELEMENTARY

Set in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, DURANES ELEMENTARY is a very small elementary school, overseen by ALBUQUERQUE. It hosts 34 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 88% below the state mean of about 287.

Within ALBUQUERQUE, which oversees 171 schools and 74,041 students, DURANES ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, DURANES ELEMENTARY records that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 24% White, 9% Native American, 6% Black. By comparison, Bernalillo County as a whole is about 49% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, DURANES ELEMENTARY reports 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 4.4:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bernalillo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DURANES ELEMENTARY is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

Nearest neighbor: MONTESSORI OF THE RIO GRANDE, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DURANES ELEMENTARY has shrank 82%, going from 194 students in 2018 to 34 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 89% to 62%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 4.4:1 in 2025.

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